Following Monday’s bombing which rocked Moscow’s Domodedovo airport and left 35 people dead, President Medvedev has been remarkably quick to point the finger of blame at the airport’s management, which he claims failed to provide adequate security, despite the fact that most international airports do not have heavily securitized meet-and-greet sections.  The latest from RFE/RL is that Medvedev has dismissed the chief of the Interior Ministry transport department for the Central Federal District, after lambasting ‘passive’ security officers.  

Observers have noted however that in the blame game that inevitably comes in the wake of any disaster, the FSB, which is charged with the role of extirpating terrorism (and according to the Telegraph, may have had a tip-off) has come off relatively lightly.  As Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan point out in today’s Moscow Times: